Open AccessSensitivity and Specificity of the Fever Syndromes in BioSense and ESSENCE
Author(s) -
Caleb Wiedeman
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
online journal of public health informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1947-2579
DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6456
Subject(s) - medicine , gold standard (test) , sensitivity (control systems) , intensive care medicine , electronic engineering , engineering
The performance of the BioSense and ESSENCE fever syndromes were compared using measured temperature as a gold standard. Both syndromes performed similarly, but the ESSENCE syndrome had higher sensitivity over the one year study period. Including recorded temperature data as a queryable variable would increase the sensitivity of the fever syndromes in both ESSENCE and BioSense.
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